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GadgetsWidgets


This page represents an exploration of gadgets (Blogger), widgets (Edublogs), and ??? (Vox); their ease of application, and usefulness for language learning and teaching blogs.


Gadgets

for Blogger blogs

Blog Statistics

Blog Statistics Widget for Blogger / Blogspot

http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/06/blog-statistics-widget-for-blogger.html


Notes
  • "Gives total blogs posts and total comments" (jtomei, personal correspondence, 2009.07.02)
  • In use on pab's potpourri (- ltdproject ltdproject Jul 5, 2009), but moved further down the sidebar (- ltdproject ltdproject Jul 8, 2009)
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    Blog Statistics, 2009.07.06
    • The script produced a repetitious counter (see screenshot: Blog Statistics, 2009.07.06; right), because I clicked on the Customize button three times, expecting another interface with sizing options (at least) to appear. However, none did; the only change that occurred was activation of the Add Widget to My Blog button, which I finally activated. - ltdproject ltdproject Jul 8, 2009
    • The value of an automated display of total posts and comments is it could serve as a rough tracking device for writing activity and peer-to-peer interaction, based on the assumptions that posts were more than one-liners, and that comments were more substantive than, "I agree," or "Me, too." It would be slightly more useful if the statistics collected and displayed included word totals. Although that value would not hold for current, course-specific tracking purposes in cases where students use the same blog for several courses (at the same time), or over several years, it could still serve to indicate extent of blogging during individual students' careers. - ltdproject ltdproject Jul 8, 2009

Label (tag) clouds

Dynamic Label Cloud

  • In use on Writing Studio Blog (- ltdproject ltdproject Jul 4, 2009)
  • Selected from among more gadgets accessed via Blogger's gadget adder interface: automated addition to Blogger blogs (c. 2009.06...)
    • Non-alphabetical display
    • Delays in updating (possibly incomplete), for example, didn't include "portfolios" though most recent post did when first installed

Label Cloud

  • In use on pab's potpourri (- ltdproject ltdproject Jul 4, 2009)
  • Coded into template following instructions in item cross-linked to first item on JT's list (pers. corres., c. 2009.07.03)
    • Alphabetical display
    • All items centered on vertical axis - oscilloscope effect
  • Both the Blogger sidebar gadget setting button visible in main page view (crossed screwdriver and wrench), and the Edit link on the gadget placeholder visible in the sidebar in the Layout interface, still open a standard pop-up window showing Blogger label options no longer evident in page view. - ltdproject ltdproject Jul 8, 2009


Others



Widgets

for Edublogs

Built-ins


Others?


Vox




References



  1. English
  2. blogger
  3. business
  4. computer literacy
  5. contents
  6. courses
  7. developments
  8. edublogs
  9. englishcentral
  10. feedback
  11. gadgets
  12. googledocs
  13. inclusions
  14. inter-editability
  15. languages
  16. layouts
  17. learners
  18. learning
  19. licenses
  20. listening
  21. local
  22. mail
  23. notification
  24. overseas studies
  25. page descriptions
  26. page headings
  27. practice
  28. presentations
  29. projects
  30. reading
  31. references
  32. rehearsals
  33. remote
  34. resources
  35. revisions
  36. speaking
  37. spreadsheets
  38. study abroad
  39. teachers
  40. templates
  41. time zones
  42. timestamps
  43. tips
  44. tutorials
  45. videos
  46. viewing
  47. vocabulary
  48. websites
  49. widgets
  50. wikis
  51. writing

Created: Jul 4, 2009 9:33 pm
Last revised by ltdproject on Feb 1, 2010 11:30 pm